Configure CI/CD for your Java application

Prerequisites

Complete the previous sections of this guide, starting with Build your Java image. You must have a GitHubopen_in_new account and a Dockeropen_in_new account to complete this section.

Overview

In this section, you'll learn how to set up and use GitHub Actions to build and push your Docker image to Docker Hub. You will complete the following steps:

Create a new repository on GitHub.
Define the GitHub Actions workflow.
Run the workflow.

Step one: Create the repository

Create a GitHub repository, configure the Docker Hub secrets, and push your source code.

Create a new repositoryopen_in_new on GitHub.
Open the repository Settings, and go to Secrets and variables > Actions.
Create a new secret named DOCKER_USERNAME and your Docker ID as value.
Create a new Personal Access Token (PAT) for Docker Hub. You can name this token docker-tutorial.
Add the PAT as a second secret in your GitHub repository, with the name DOCKERHUB_TOKEN.
In your local repository on your machine, run the following command to change the origin to the repository you just created. Make sure you change your-username to your GitHub username and your-repository to the name of the repository you created.
```
$ git remote set-url origin https://github.com/your-username/your-repository.git
```
Run the following commands to stage, commit, and push your local repository to GitHub.
```
$ git add -A
$ git commit -m "my commit"
$ git push -u origin main
```

Step two: Set up the workflow

Set up your GitHub Actions workflow for building, testing, and pushing the image to Docker Hub.

Go to your repository on GitHub and then select the Actions tab. The project already has the maven-build workflow to build and test your Java application with Maven. If you want, you can optionally disable this workflow because you won't use it in this guide. You'll create a new, alternate workflow to build, test, and push your image.
Select New workflow.
Select set up a workflow yourself.
This takes you to a page for creating a new GitHub actions workflow file in your repository, under .github/workflows/main.yml by default.

In the editor window, copy and paste the following YAML configuration.

name: ci

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - main

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      -
        name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
      -
        name: Login to Docker Hub
        uses: docker/login-action@v3
        with:
          username: ${{ secrets.DOCKER_USERNAME }}
          password: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_TOKEN }}
      -
        name: Set up Docker Buildx
        uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@v3
      -
        name: Build and test
        uses: docker/build-push-action@v5
        with:
          context: .
          target: test
          load: true
      -
        name: Build and push
        uses: docker/build-push-action@v5
        with:
          context: .
          push: true
          target: production
          tags: ${{ secrets.DOCKER_USERNAME }}/${{ github.event.repository.name }}:latest

For more information about the YAML syntax used here, see Workflow syntax for GitHub Actionsopen_in_new.

Step three: Run the workflow

Save the workflow file and run the job.

Select Commit changes... and push the changes to the main branch.
After pushing the commit, the workflow starts automatically.
Go to the Actions tab. It displays the workflow.
Selecting the workflow shows you the breakdown of all the steps.
When the workflow is complete, go to your repositories on Docker Hubopen_in_new.
If you see the new repository in that list, it means the GitHub Actions successfully pushed the image to Docker Hub.

Summary

In this section, you learned how to set up a GitHub Actions workflow for your application.

Related information:

Next steps

Next, learn how you can locally test and debug your workloads on Kubernetes before deploying.

Test your deployment